Rageh omaar on BBC Question Time (Part3)

See Rageh Omaar's BBC Videos: http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=av&q=rageh%20omaar%...

See Rageh Omaar in Hargeisa (Somaliland)and other countries, filming Child Slavery on BBC 2: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1306704210917722516

Born in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Omaar is a son of a wealthy Isaaq businessman from the north of Somalia. His family were originally from Hargeisa in the Republic of Somaliland. Omaar came to Britain when he was 6. He was educated at two independent schools: at the Dragon School in Oxford, Oxfordshire and Cheltenham College in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, before reading Modern History at New College at the University of Oxford. His career highlights include reporting live from war-torn Somalia and Iraq.

He began his journalistic career as a trainee for The Voice newspaper, and in 1991 he moved to Ethiopia where he freelanced as a foreign correspondent, working mainly for the BBC World Service. A year later, he returned to London to work as a producer and broadcast journalist for the BBC. He moved to South Africa after being appointed the BBC's Africa correspondent - his wife and children were based there through 2004, and his regular commuting made domestic life difficult.

Career: Rageh Omaar established himself as an internationally recognised journalist when he reported for the BBC during the American led invasion of Iraq.

It was during this time that he was nicknamed the "Scud Stud" by the New York Post.

Since leaving the BBC he has presented a number of documentaries and written two books. He joined the new english channel Al Jazeera international.Rageh Omaar presents the channel's daily documentary strand Witness. The programme gives voice to actual witnesses of global affairs, featuring human stories made by storytellers from all walks of life, together with expert analysis, interviews and in-depth discussion. Content is also gathered from the channel's broadcast centres and draws on a new breed of video journalists reaching parts of the world often ignored. Witness also brings together the best documentaries from around the world, and allows air time for access-driven video journalists.

Well Done Rageh, proud to be British and Somali.

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[nsgunner]

On behalf of the Somaliland community in the United Kingdom, we would like to extend our sincere condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the family, relatives and friends of ABDILLLAAHI OMAAR CAWAALE who is the father of Rageh Omaar.

[nsgunner]

The winners of the 16th annual Amnesty International UK Media Awards, sponsored by PCI:Fitch, will be announced at a ceremony at the Café Royal, London, on Wednesday 4 July, hosted by Al Jazeera English presenter and writer Rageh Omaar.

[nsgunner]

Film Show and Q&A with Rageh Omaar

Plus Paul Sapin (Director) Ziba Mir Hosseini (London Middle East Institute) Elaheh Rostami Povey (School of Oriental and African Studies)

7pm, Thursday 14th June

London Irish Centre, 52 Camden Square (off Camden Road), London, NW1 9XB.

Near Camden Road BR, Camden Town tube

[nsgunner]

The Countrybookshop Spring Peak Festival 2007 will be held from 18th May to 27th May 2007. Authors appearing at the festival include John Major, Rageh Omaar, Marina Lewycka, Tony Juniper, Louis De Berniers, Mark Tully and William Dalrymple.

Rageh Omaar, TV Journalist, talks about his childhood in Somalia and growing up a Muslim in Britain on the 23rd and on the 24th Tony Juniper, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, discusses 'How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change a Planet?

[nsgunner]

I was born in Somaliland, the self-declared republic in the north of Somalia, where my relatives still live.

A couple of miles outside the capital Hargeisa is a vast and flat savannah landscape that still belongs to nomads who herd camels and goats.

[nsgunner]

This World: Slave Children with Rageh Omaar will be broadcast on Monday, 26 March, 2007 at 2100 BST on BBC Two.

[dhuungal]

rageh omer is somalilander

[beandream]

only middle class and those that can tick the black or ethnic minority box get employed by the bbc. There is no real objectivity, that was so clear when the BNP leader appeared on question tine and the audience did not represent the general public.

[MultiRussian123]

@siish stop swearing stupid piss of shit. so what there are more darood that are chirstains than any other people in the world just like AYAAN HIRSI who repeatedly insulted the religion and the prophet SAW. also IMAN and FATUMO who are all in american models and show their ugly stinking pussey around to white boys and i could still go on and on. but stop hating isaaq they are stronger more educated, than ya are so fuck off xaraan xaraan dhalay.

[mos58]

Rage omar Reer Smellyland idoor

[evil999]

Rageh pwned jeff hoon, nice one Rageh!

[AyanleHaybe1]

The word Moryan means Peast whether you like or not. ANd SOmali SOmalis are peasts. I am a peast becuase my father is a somalia peast. SOmalis Theya re peast basically. But Rageh only survived because he grew In britain, andmarried to nonpeast girl,. I Love Rageh as he is my favorite series correspondent called "EYE WITNESS" on ALjazeera. SO SOMALI MORYANS DONT TALK ABOUt RAGEH OMAR AGAIN, OR YOUWANT HIM BECOME MORYAN TOO? HE WILL NOT .

[AyanleHaybe1]

Hey, stop talking about Omar Rageh as he is British Citizen, education in Britian, married to white girl, and nonreligion, though heard embraces christianity over Islam, he does not care SOMALI MORYANS talking about his life or whether he is S.Land or Somalian. He is britsh, u get a live. he does not care of you and lives in a great life and that is why he did nto wanna marry SOmali Moryan cuze she would get Moryan gets too,

[TheNasiibgoobe]

Somaliland?

[siish]

i swear to allah his mom and dad r from hargeisa. hahaha he is not slander kulahaaaaaaa kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk dumb ass faqash foqol faqash...... raage omaar my neighbor cuz